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How bout a few more of my crane? Just of Oxford st in central London on a lovely Sunday afternoon.   Putting up a new platform at the Dartford Creek flood barrier   And today I was putting in portakabins at a school near Bracknell.   Tomorrows Job is putting up a Potain Tower crane in Basildon, put the tower sections up on Saturday, slew ring up goes on tomorrow....i'll take some snaps and post them tomorrow. Enjoy Gaz
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Like this picture, last week on it now!  I'll not be getting to emotional! lol Gaz
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ya keep her looking well Gaz, a few more wheel nuts to polish on an LTM1500  what sort of daily/weekly/monthly maintenance do you carry out,or do you have a "lad" that does this?
Why is "phonetically" spelt with a "ph"? ... It's better to be silent and thought a fool, then to speak up and remove all doubt The complex of Newgrange was originally built between c. 3100 and 2900 BC,[2] meaning that it's aproximately 5,000 years old. According to Carbon-14 dates,[3] it is more than 500 years older than the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt, and predates Stonehenge by about 1,000 years.
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gbarnewall wrote:what sort of daily/weekly/monthly maintenance do you carry out,or do you have a "lad" that does this? The daily and weekly checks are down to the driver and to be honest they are very simple, just got to keep on top of things and not run behind. Takes about a hour to do a weekly properly and maybe 10 mins to sort out a daily, just a quick run over things. Anything more than this is a job for the fitters...although i actually enjoy helping them out a touch, don't mind getting my hands dirty  Gaz
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I can take this now and show our machine drivers! they only believe in turning the key themselves,
how often does the lifting rope get changed?
Why is "phonetically" spelt with a "ph"?
... It's better to be silent and thought a fool, then to speak up and remove all doubt
The complex of Newgrange was originally built between c. 3100 and 2900 BC,[2] meaning that it's aproximately 5,000 years old. According to Carbon-14 dates,[3] it is more than 500 years older than the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt, and predates Stonehenge by about 1,000 years.
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Hi gaz, nothing from the guys at Ainscough yet :( Hope things are going well!
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woady wrote:Hi gaz, nothing from the guys at Ainscough yet :( Hope things are going well! PM Jack on here.....he got sent a load a while back, ask who he emailed, if still no joy the i'll get a direct email for marketing and publicity for you. Gaz
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I never sent off for pictures mate, You must be mistaking me with someone else , but i think i remeber someone posting lots of pictures, possibly Joe?
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Not me mate....not seen an ainscough crane round these parts for a while!
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JoeS1989 wrote:Not me mate....not seen an ainscough crane round these parts for a while! Sorry mate, thought it was you, might been a young lad called Jammie who used to use the forum who had them sent to him. They where mainly calendar and promotional pictures Ainscough used. Some great pics mind you. Gaz
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Sounds good....more firms should do things like that! On a lighter note i saw my first Ainscough crane in about 6 months this morning....i think it was a lil 2 axel Demag going down my street.
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JoeS1989 wrote:On a lighter note i saw my first Ainscough crane in about 6 months this morning....i think it was a lil 2 axel Demag going down my street. Really, only 1.....strange as I seen about 30 today!  lol Gaz
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Gaz wrote:JoeS1989 wrote:On a lighter note i saw my first Ainscough crane in about 6 months this morning....i think it was a lil 2 axel Demag going down my street. Really, only 1.....strange as I seen about 30 today! lol Gaz Lucky you! And thanks for all the pictures! Kerst
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haha.....only 30? you must be cheating! haha
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Few pictures anyone? For those who have not guessed my move over to heavy cranes has been delayed for the time being, hopefully not too long but in the mean time i'm still getting around on my 150.  Largest tower crane i've done to date, a liebherr 132EC-H8, and I reckon about at big as a tower as the LTM1150 is up too, only just got it on a 62.2m main boom and right on the button with capacity with the slew ring and jib. Job done    Wait a minute! that 500's floating!!!!! lol  Gaz
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Few more pictures of the ol girl....still running around and about with it.....still no word when i'm moving up to heavy cranes but for the time being i'm quite happy running around in the 150. Olympic stadium makes a good back drop don't you think?  I've spent a good amount of time up at Harwich port working on the Greater Gabbard wind farm, this is a huge project and will be one of the largest off shore wind farms in the world, all i really handle is the blades along with a LTM1200.   And also had another 150 up there rigging up ALE's CC2600, no jacks on the crawler at all so once the tracks where on the LTM1100 & 1150 had to lift it off its stands to put it on its own tracks!  Intresting job the greater Gabbard, here are a few links - http://www.4coffshore.com/windfarms/greater-gabbard-united-kingdom-uk05.htmlhttp://www.seajacks.com/Enjoy Gaz
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Nice pics  Do you have more pics of the CC 2600?
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Nice pics Gaz. Seems you are still enjoying the job!
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is there a specific reason they dont have any jacks on the CC 2600?
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Great pics again gaz.....We've had a little 2 axle Liebherr on site this past week, im assuming its from the Nottingham depot....little y reg and looked like it needed a bit of TLC!!!!
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